Chapter 112
“...What?”
Koi couldn’t easily grasp what he had just heard. Ashley’s expression twisted as he looked at Koi’s dazed face. That expression, which looked like both a laugh and a cry, slowly made Koi come to terms with reality.
“What... did you just say?”
He finally opened his mouth, but the words wouldn’t come out right. The broken, scattered question was something Ashley only listened to in silence. But that silence felt even more terrifying to Koi.
Ashley had manifested.
Koi’s rational mind tried to soften the blow by reminding him of reality. I’m just a Beta.
Ashley is an Alpha, so of course, he’s different from an ordinary Beta. There must’ve been circumstances. Yeah, that must be it. I don’t even know much about Alphas. And Ashley is an extreme Alpha, far beyond a normal one. There must have been something—something that left him with no choice... There had to be.
But I waited.
Koi’s emotions started to rise, pushing past his attempts to rationalize. He said he loved me. I waited for him so desperately.
How could you do that with someone else while I was waiting for you?
Even if you had just called—if I’d at least known—no, from the beginning—
“Why would you say that...”